Visitors coming to Britain for this summer’s Olympic Games will now have an extra 120,000 hotel rooms to choose from as the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games hands them back after originally booking 600,000 for officials and the media.
The rooms were originally booked as part of the bid to secure the Games in [...]

Emirates Airlines has said that it has already checked one of its Airbus A380 superjumbos, and is in the process of examining another, after an aviation safety body issued instructions that all carriers with the aircraft in their fleet should check the wings for damage. The directive was issued at the end of last week [...]

The firm in charge of operating a cruise liner which capsized off the island of Giglio on Friday has said that the incident could have been due to errors made by its captain. In a statement, Costa Crociere said that it appears that Capt Francesco Schettino had taken the vessel too close to the land, [...]

Luxury car-maker Rolls-Royce has reported that sales last year were up by 31 per cent to 3,538 vehicles. Although the growth was slower than a year earlier, BMW, the marque’s owner, said that the level represented a new sales record. The main force behind the growth was the company’s Ghost model which retails for £165,000.
According [...]

A group representing the interests of train passengers has accused the industry of being inefficient and fractured in the wake of a fare hike which averages 5.9 per cent. However, some tickets have increased in price by far more. An annual season ticket for travel between Chester and Crewe is now 10.6 per cent more [...]

By the end of January, motorcyclists are likely to be given permission to drive on bus routes in the centre of London. The move follows two trials, both of which have lasted for 18 months. The first trial ended in June 2010, and looked at emission levels and how motorcyclists behaved when given access to [...]

As schools break up for the Christmas holidays, the AA estimates that around 18 million cars will be taken out onto UK roads as people travel to see friends and relatives over the festive period. The busiest days are expected to be Thursday 22 and Friday 23 December. A London Underground workers’ strike announced for [...]

Following an agreement to purchase Northern Rock for £747 million, Sir Richard Branson has said that he will consider opening banks in railway stations between London and the north. Sir Richard is currently looking to have the Virgin Trains franchise on the west coast route renewed. The service carries around 30 million passengers annually between [...]

As Thomas Cook struggles to survive by placing itself further in debt, Europe’s number one travel operator could be heading for its best ever summer next year, according to analysts.
The firm is due to announce its first financial update since Thomas Cook’s ongoing troubles saw around 60 per cent wiped off its share value. Industry [...]

Travel group Thomas Cook has secured new funding with the banks. The company has been in financial trouble lately, and this year has been forced to issue three profit warnings. News that the travel firm was talking to banks meant shares fell in value by 75 per cent. In October, Thomas Cook announced that it [...]